• BUSINESS

  The case for more female leaders

  Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 10/04/2017

  » During a school swimming class, an East German girl with pale blonde hair stood at the edge of the high diving board, staring down at the pool below for 45 minutes. Just before the class bell rang, she finally jumped. Angela Merkel was determined to overcome her fears, no matter how long it took.

• WORLD

  Myanmar up-close and personal

  Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 22/03/2016

  » 'Welcome to the Guesthouse. The small space is made to set you free from anxiety. But first you need to leave your old perceptions behind. You need to open your mind for new memories," says Kyaw Luck, a guide for the exhibition "Myanmar Up-Close", which opened last week at Museum Siam.

• OPINION

  New Rail Dept has a very long journey ahead

  News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 25/05/2019

  » More than 120 years since the nation's first railway was built, 20 years after the the BTS Skytrain's launch and 15 years after the MRT subway's birth, the Rail Department, a state body to oversee all rail transport operators, has finally come to life.

• OPINION

  When beer becomes too convenient

  News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 11/10/2017

  » Beer was never my drink of choice until a recent vacation in Germany made me "see the light" as I was introduced to many delicious pilsner, wheat and craft beers.

• BUSINESS

  Greening the palm oil supply chain

  Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 08/05/2017

  » 2016 will be remembered as the year of clear blue skies and clean air in the southern peninsula of Southeast Asia. For the first time in nearly two decades, choking haze from fires set to clear land for oil palm plantations was reduced significantly, in keeping with a promise made by Indonesian President Joko Widodo.

• THAILAND

  IUU red card would be a blessing in disguise

  News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 14/01/2016

  » January may not be a joyous time for people in the fishery industry which is being subjected to another assessment by the European Union (EU) which last year slapped Thailand with a yellow card for Illegal, Unreported & Unregulated (IUU) fishing.

• LIFE

  Drought, fishing scandals and winding roads

  Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/12/2015

  » In the past year, environmental disasters once again proved how much of an impact they have on everyone's lives: the air we breathe (the haze in the South, blown over from Indonesia); the water we use (the contentious Chao Phraya roads); the lights we see (the coal-fired power plants); the ground beneath our feet (the gold mining scandals); the food we eat (the fishery disputes). In all of this, local communities and the rural poor feel the heat and the fire more than Bangkok's urbanites and they're the people who keep showing public resistance against environmental problems and the depletion of natural resources, despite the grip of military rule.  

• LIFE

  Sustaining environmental activism

  Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 21/10/2015

  » The demography of environmental activists in Thailand has shifted. The pioneering generation, those inspired by the life and death of the late Sueb Nakhasathien, the forest official who committed suicide in what is believed to be a protest against bureaucratic hopelessness, have started retiring, or feel too tired and have moved into other fields.

• TECH

  At our fished ends

  Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 23/09/2015

  » With 2,600km of coastline, Thailand has always been blessed by its vast supply of seafood. But when it comes to knowledge about the supposed abundance of our sea, most of us are clueless.

• LIFE

  Dinosaurs in the digital age

  Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 13/08/2015

  » When was the last time you visited a library? That's one question worth thinking about, but the other question being discussed among librarians is whether public libraries will survive. As the internet becomes a new pathfinder of data and information and the younger generation find knowledge via Google and YouTube, the fate of libraries seems like that of an endangered species.

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